The Juventus–Napoli rivalry is an inter-city

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rivalry contested between

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-based

Juventus Juventus Football Club (; from , ), commonly known as Juventus or colloquially as Juve (), is an Italian professional Association football, football List of football clubs in Italy, club based in Turin, Piedmont, who compete in Serie A, the ...

and

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-based

Napoli Naples ( ; ; ) is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 908,082 within the city's administrative limits as of 2025, while its province-level municipality is the thir ...

History

The rivalry between Juventus and Napoli stems from a historical

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rivalry between

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and

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, of which the clubs' respective home cities of Turin and Naples are major metropolitan and economic centers. The rivalry started to gain more attention in the 1980s when Napoli became league contenders. Juventus won the

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title with star player

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, six points clear of third placed Napoli. The following season, Napoli won their first ''

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'' with star player

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, three points ahead of second placed Juventus, the first – and only – Southern Italian team to win the league. Napoli won another, and final title in 1989–90. After that time, in the 1990s, Juventus shared success with

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in regards to ''scudetti'', as Napoli started to decline. In 1997–98, Napoli were relegated to

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after winning only two matches. By August 2004, Napoli was declared bankrupt. Film producer Aurelio De Laurentiis refounded Napoli under the name "Napoli Soccer", and were placed in the

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. The following season, they secured promotion to Serie B and De Laurentiis bought back the name "Società Sportiva Calcio Napoli" in May 2006. After one season back in

, Napoli were promoted to Serie A, along with that season's Serie B champions, Juventus, after the ''bianconeri'' had been relegated the previous season and had their two most recent league titles stripped because of involvement in the

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scandal. The rivalry again intensified in the 2010s with Napoli's 2–0 win over Juventus in the

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, Juventus captain

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's last game for Juventus. Between 2011–12 and 2016–17, Juventus won each league title, with Napoli finishing in at least the top five in each of the seasons. The summer before the 2016–17 season, Argentine forward

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became the third highest football transfer of all-time and highest ever transfer for an Italian club, when he was signed by Juventus for €90 million from Napoli. Higuaín jerseys were burned in the streets of Naples. Since Higuaín joined Juventus in 2016, Napoli fans are not allowed to travel to Turin for Juventus match-ups and vice versa. That season, Juventus paid many fines and had a partial stadium ban because of the repeated chant: '

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wash them with lava.' On 22 April 2018, Napoli fans were allowed to travel to Turin, but not those from the

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region of Italy, where Naples is located. Napoli won the match 1–0 with a 90th-minute header from

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to close the gap to one point behind Juventus in the league table. Despite this, Juventus ended up winning the 2017–18 title, four points ahead of second placed Napoli, extending their record-breaking run of consecutive championships to seven.

Official matches

* SF = Semi-final * QF = Quarter-final * R16 = Round of 16 * R32 = Round of 32 * GS = Group stage * R1 = Round 1 * R2 = Round 2 * R3 = Round 3

Head-to-head ranking in Serie A (1930–2025)

• Total: Juventus with 65 higher finishes, Napoli with 14 higher finishes (as of the end of the 2024–25 season). No head-to-heads in 14 seasons, since Napoli was in

. Another one, the 2006–07 season, took place in the

, with Juventus finishing first and Napoli second. Notes: *

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is not included in Serie A statistics. * Due to the

scandal, Juventus' 2004–05 title was voided, while in the 2005–06 season Juventus was relegated and the title was awarded to

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Statistics

Trophies

* Numbers with this background denote the competition record.

References

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